Upgrading its technology was a big decision for US Signature HealthCare in Brockton, Mass. The oldest and largest in-patient hospital within its area, its ambitious upgrade program covered a lot of goals; including offering digital imaging in the emergency room and providing more tools to the people making time-sensitive clinical decisions. In rigorous field trials, one solution stood out, offering not only the specifications the hospital wanted but also visibly different image quality: the Agfa HealthCare DX-D 100. And that was just the start!

 

With a strong foundation of expertise in imaging design, development and manufacturing, NeuroLogica transforms fixed technologies into portable point-of-care platforms. The current product offering consists of three portable platforms, the CereTom small bore CT, inSPira HD brain SPECT and the BodyTom large bore CT. 

Viztek announced a new partnership with Matakina to integrate the company’s VolparaDensity software for analyzing digital mammography and tomosynthesis images and objectively assessing breast density with the Viztek Opal-PACS and Opal-wRIS for streamlined reporting and workflow.

Annoyed by the high cost of a tune-up, 30 years ago I took a class on automotive maintenance. Armed with a spark plug wrench, timing light and screwdriver, I thereafter tuned up — far more often than necessary — my 1978 Toyota Corolla. Back then I had the right tools and the knowledge to do what needed to be done. Today I have neither.

Radiologists are in a different ocean, but the same boat.


Annoyed by the high cost of a tune-up, 30 years ago I took a class on automotive maintenance. Armed with a spark plug wrench, timing light and screwdriver, I thereafter tuned up — far more often than necessary — my 1978 Toyota Corolla. Back then I had the right tools and the knowledge to do what needed to be done. Today I have neither.

Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) was approved in the United States for use as a supplement to traditional mammography following U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review of two studies in which radiologists showed a 7 percent improvement in the ability to distinguish between cancerous and noncancerous cases using 3-D datasets.

The Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York, N.Y., consistently ranks No. 1 on the U.S. News & World Report list of best orthopedic hospitals in the United States. The hospital performs thousands of surgeries every year, and those procedures require leading-edge imaging technology. HSS currently uses 20 GE OEC fluoroscopy systems in its operating suites. That’s a lot of imaging, and a big challenge for a department whose motto is “every procedure starts with low dose.” 


As the use of mobile computing devices and smartphones has rapidly proliferated in healthcare over the past few years, there has been a flood of medical applications (apps) developed for all facets of medicine. In an increasingly tech savvy world, people want information to be at their fingertips when and where they need it via their mobile devices.

The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University is one of 41 National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated “comprehensive” cancer centers in the country — the highest ranking given by the NCI. The Lurie Cancer Center was first established at Northwestern University in 1974, and is dedicated to scientific discovery, providing state-of-the-art care, and training clinicians and scientists.

Radiation therapy has played an important role in the treatment of cancer for more than a century. Used typically as a curative treatment either alone or in conjunction with surgery and/or chemotherapy, the aim of radiation therapy has always been to eradicate a patient’s cancer. 
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